Congress says Rahul Gandhi led party delegation to Lakhimpur on Wednesday, seeks UP government’s approval

Congress said on Tuesday that its former president Rahul Gandhi Will lead a five-member party delegation Lakhimpur Kheri on Wednesday asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to grant permission for the yatra. Party sources in Delhi said Rahul Gandhi is keen to go there on Wednesday after his sister and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was detained by the Uttar Pradesh police on her way to Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight people died on Sunday. And many were injured. This is the bloodiest clash since last year’s farmers’ protests over the Centre’s agricultural laws.

All India Congress Committee general secretary KC Venugopal, in his letter to Adityanath, said a five-member delegation led by Rahul Gandhi proposed to visit Lakhimpur Kheri on October 6 to offer condolences to the bereaved families and to ascertain the facts first. has kept. The Congress has told the chief minister that the UP government has allowed leaders of other political parties from Uttar Pradesh as well as West Bengal to visit Lakhimpur Kheri, but not his party leaders.